The South Dakota governor, defending her tale of shooting and killing her family’s dog, suggested that President Biden’s German shepherd, Commander, had merited a similar fate.
  • Boozilla@lemmy.worldEnglish
    82·
    2 months ago

    She’s doing a twisted admixture of “the cruelty is the point” and “I think I’m a badass who can make the hard choices” with this sociopath bullshit.

    Sadly it will appeal to a certain type of voter.

    • eestileib@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      16·
      2 months ago

      David Brooks and the rest of the NYT editorial board will be totally behind puppy murder in a week, and I’ll have to hear my liberal friends both sides it…

  • ZeroCool@vger.socialEnglish
    69·
    2 months ago

    Republicans are now the pro-dog killing party lol. If there’s one thing you can depend on Republicans to do, it’s make the dumbest choice imaginable in any given situation.

  • 21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    52·
    2 months ago

    It’s kinda amazing that our political discourse has gotten to the point where people will double down on anything. I feel like if a Republican presidential candidate got caught molesting a child the next big push from the party would be lowering age of consent.

    • Jimmyeatsausage@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      2 months ago

      It’s not so much about the puppies. It’s killing anything that doesn’t respect your authority. It could be a puppy, a kitten, a rabbit, a minority, anything…the important thing is that your unearned status is protected through fear and force.

  • carl_dungeon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    40·
    2 months ago

    She should open a pet store where you bring your existing pet and then she just shoots it and tells you why she had to.

  • frickineh@lemmy.worldEnglish
    38·
    2 months ago

    I mean, by all accounts, Commander is a problem and biting staff repeatedly wouldn’t fly anywhere but the White House, but the answer isn’t shooting him in the backyard. She’s a fucking psychopath. I shouldn’t be surprised that she’s decided to double down on dog murderer as a good quality.

  • xantoxis@lemmy.worldEnglish
    36·
    2 months ago

    Guys, I wouldn’t vote for her if I were you. I’m pretty sure if she wins she’s going to kill everyone’s dog

  • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
    22·
    2 months ago

    Substitute her arguments about a “working dog” for a minority person. Because you hear it all the time in rural areas and her home town…

  • starman2112@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    14·
    2 months ago

    “Joe Biden’s dog has attacked 24 Secret Service people,” and that’s what I call praxis

    Commander said ACAB

    • lost_faith@lemmy.caEnglish
      7·
      2 months ago

      How many non-secret service people have been bitten by Commander? If the answer is zero, what do these secret service people do to antagonise Commander?

  • Aatube@kbin.melroy.org
    12·
    2 months ago

    Commander was sent to an undisclosed location after the Secret Service recorded 24 biting episodes involving him between October 2022 and July 2023, about half of which required medical attention.

    The South Dakota governor, who had been widely seen as a contender to be former President Donald J. Trump’s running mate, wrote in the book about a female wire-haired pointer named Cricket that she had hoped to use to hunt pheasant on her ranch. She said that the dog proved “untrainable,” “dangerous to anyone she came in contact with” and “less than worthless” as a hunting dog — so she shot her in a gravel pit.

    In the CBS interview, Ms. Noem sought to defend the killing of Cricket — and a goat she also shot the same day — as “a choice I made over 20 years ago” to “protect people.”